St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-02-11
DAKOTA DOTS AND DAsHEs.
News Notes of Interest to the PeopI.
of the Great TerrifOry

The Sioux Falls Press, the Auditor Cald-
well sheetsand Il leading organ of division in
urging the passage of the bill providing for a
popular vote, makes this admission ut is
true that the various legislatures have passed
memorials to congress urging the division of
the territory, and that political conventions
have taken decided stand for division. Still
it is not to be denied that the legislators and
delegates were not elected on division ISSUE
and it is idle TO claim that the people have
ever expressed themselves on the question: -
The Press would not exhaust the opportunity
for candor If it would also admit that on a
full, fair vote, which can only be had at a
general election. the maj jority will probably
be opposed 10 division.
When the trainers of the Huron state were
concocting their scheme they refused to listen
to the demand from the North that the name
Dakota should be divided. and insisted on the
whole of it. Now they send committee to
genutlect to the North and ask it to take the
name OF North Dakota, and one of the lead
ing papers, the Millbank Index, frankly says:
I'VE Of South Dakota may resolve, gnash our
teeth and cavort around with all the enthusi-
asm of a sucking colt, but we can make no
practical advance unless we get North Da-
kota to take hold and help US. The two Da-
kotaS together would make a team strong
enough to force the issue to success" But
the North likes the South too we'll to ask di-
vorce.
in Trail county are iubilant over the deep
snow las it keeps the ground warm and pre-
vents the frost from setting very deep below
the surface, and when the spring thaw comes
what frost there is in the ground quickly
comes out and the land can be made ready
for early sowing" Last year the same paper
said the farmers were happy because there
was little snow, as the frost went deep and
would be late coming out, keeping the ground
cool for wheat. The Trail farmers evidently
are not kickerS.
One of the most Dlizzardy nights recently
at kelso, in Trail county, Frank Harrington,
one of the handsomest galants, kept prom
ise to spend the evening with his sweetheart,
and on leaving was unable to find his way
home. He wandered about in the fierce
blizzard and darkness until nearly daylight
and then struck a house only four rods from
that of the young lady, and was taken in and
made comfortable. The young man is so i'm
pressed with the danger of being out in q
blizzard that he insists upon an immediate
date.
The towns on the Missouri river that are so
anxious for the opening of the Sioux reserva-
ton, are now apprehensive that the railroads
will obtain land to lay out towns on the west
side of the river. 1t is noted that the leadin ng
of the rivers. and it seems probable that
there will be no exception to the rule in this
case.
paper in Hughes county says the legis-
latorS from that section excite sympathy at
| home by sending back the report that Bis.
marck whisky is SO thin that it can't stand
the ethermometer-freeZes up--and that when
the hacks stalled IN the suow Mr. Pruitt, OF
Potter, got out and walked, and was so badly
frozen he was hardly able to reach the cap
iiol. Still no draft will be needed to send
men TO the legislature.